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Re: ip aliasing support ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Oct 18 18:57:17 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: cschle@paradigm.co.za (Craig Schlenter)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:04:59 +0100 (BST)
Cc: jjciarla@raiz.uncu.edu.ar, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.91.951012072537.27137A-100000@silmaril.paradigm.co.za> from "Craig Schlenter" at Oct 12, 95 07:37:35 am
> I modifed Rob's patches a few days ago for 1.3.32 but was waiting to get
> some email response from him before posting them to linux-net for further
> testing. Your patches sound a bit more impressive though with the netmask
> support etc. :-)
>
> Please email me a copy and send a copy to linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu too
> so that more people can test them ... if they look OK chances are Alan
> will add them in pretty soon.
I'm not keen on IP alias, but if its cleanly #ifdef'd it will get added. The
only problem it will cause then is that by defining SIOCAIFADDR/SIOCDIFADDR
it changes the assumptions some programs make (like netatalk goes 'ah
4.4BSD' and will expect the same facilities in appletalk. It also needs to
handle SIOCGIFCONF correctly so that the routing daemons like gated behave
properly.
My single most fundamental objection was the linked list of addresses not an
array (which would be much much faster).
Alan
